Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Goats being Goats

My two Alpine Dairy goats are named Bonita and Ida, and here they are sharing their landscaping talents for free. Every day I let them out for a while of their pen and they run around and kick and snort, eat, steal chicken feed, and follow me back into the woods. Bonita is still being milked but only once a day at this point, and her production is at a solid half gallon or more a day. That's half of what she was producing but as the weather heats up her biological clock tells her to produce less. I mean, if you raised a kid that ate green things and green things were everywhere, you'd get tired of nursing too! I think folks like seeing goats being goats, so here is a snapshot.

Notice Gibson is keeping close watch on the chick tractors. Very important.

9 Comments:

thank you so much, that means so much to me. So often I find myself apologizing and ashamed of the farm because of old, bad, fences or the dump in the woods. Truth is that this place is beautiful, and I better start loving it more!

thank you so much, that means so much to me. So often I find myself apologizing and ashamed of the farm because of old, bad, fences or the dump in the woods. Truth is that this place is beautiful, and I better start loving it more!

I wish I was comfortable letting my girls go for a stroll in my yard, I'm afraid they would bolt for the honeysuckle on the other side of the road or the rose bushes at our neighbors! Your girls are beautiful Jenna and I love reading your blog, makes being away at work a bit more tolerable.

I agree with Sammy I love seeing photos of your farm nothing about it is run down its just well worn and comfortable just like the favorite pair of slippers or the favorite robe that you always chose to cuddle in... it must be truly amazing to be able to come home to that!

All I have to say to you, Jenna is that you have to start SOMEWHERE and I think you're making awesome progress (also not gonna lie, definitely going to miss hearing your stories of escaped ewes and lambs once that fence is fixed! I love how Gibson is such a great help to you -- so much more than a companion)… As one of your other readers so aptly noted, your blog is such a great relief from my monotonous day job!